*The* soup for pickle lovers 🥒

Guys, it's pickles, but as soup. It's Polish pickle soup!

As many of you know, I was born in Ukraine and grew up eating primarily traditional Ukrainian food. Then when I met my partner – a fellow immigrant to the States but from Poland – I started learning about Polish cuisine.

There is a lot of overlap in the two – like varenyky/pierogi, stuffed cabbage rolls, and boiled potatoes with every meal, for example – but one of the things I really appreciate about Polish cuisine are their soups. There are some truly excellent options in this category (many of which have sour cream in them, hence the excellence) and dill pickle soup (zupa ogórkowa) is one of our favorites.

Although I am not a food historian, this soup was undoubtedly designed to use up ingredients that could survive a winter in the cellar: potatoes, carrots, onions, and pickles. A great example of Eastern European peasant cooking.

Now, pickle soup is not a vegetable soup with some pickles in it. It’s very pickle-forward and the primary flavor is pickles, with dill and black pepper playing supporting roles.

Its complex flavor had me thinking it must be challenging to make, but as I recently came to learn, it’s actually ridiculously simple…

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